Central High School - Caldron Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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90. C N ,QNX Af.-Opxo FIRST ROW- Violet Battenberg SECOND ROW- Josephine Freigy, Ethel Margolies, Raydein Voltemark, Viola Green, Peggy Meese Helen Phinney, Shirley Stonicipher. THIRD ROW- Mr. Bailhe. Mildred Yingling, Genevieve Freigy, Emma Ellison, Martha Gauze, Ruth Seigle. FOURTH ROW' Marcella Boese, Lillian Rodgers, Leonetta MacQueen, Mary Koons, and Evelyn Ann Warfield. G4 Uzfgemz 65062 The A'Capella Choir is an honorary club which is made from selected voices from the girls' glee club. This choir has been organized for four years under the leadership of Mr. Bailhe. This choir is rapidly coming one of the foremost projects of the school as it has worked out a program which has never before been followed by any choir in Central. Last year the choir gave a Joint benefit program with the band on November 6, 1935. This year a tea dance and party were given and the profit was added to other funds and blue and white choir robes were bought. The ofhcers are somewhat responsible for the choir's sucess, because it was their enthusiastic alertness that has made the 1936 year suressful. The present ofhcers are: President Leonetta MacQueen Vice President Genevive F riegy Secretary Sz Treasurer Josephine F riegy Business Manager Peggy Meese Librarian Marv Koons

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oo-- 99 C4i.9glERoN UIQ: Uzcgaifza Under the capable direction of Mr. Gaston Bailhe, the orchestra has -rapidly enlarged in the last six years. During this time the orchestra has participated in district, state, and national contests. The orchestra placed in the first division with the Elkhart orchestra at the district meet, and competed in the state finals at Evansville last year. Individual members, lrven Jensen, Marguerite Baker, Kathleen Bolyard, john Broom and Ruth Seigelg won national honors at Madison, Wisconsin. The orchestra has also given concerts at the local schools. The present membership of the orchestra is composed of approximately fifty members, alth ugh posse-sing only fourteen in 1930. Due to the large enrollment the orchestra is well togged with blue Russian blouses and white trousers. U65 BQIZCJ ' Q' Vlarching in their brilliant blue and white uniforms, with their drum -major, Lester Doell, strutting up and down, the Central Band creates ' a fine spectacle wherever they may be. Last year their impressive marching and playing won a silver baton in a district contest at Goshen. This year, due to Central being host to the Sectional Basketball Tourna- ment, the B ue at d Whites' band performed in the capacity of official tourney bzind. ' Five years ago, Central band wis composed of hfteen members: today it has sixty members. It also possesses new uniforms and instruments which were bought with the donations from other clubs, and concerts given by the orchestra.

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oo-- 91 C'4l.9gle1oN 0125 'zaffa and nin th in three performances The money taken in will be used to buy supplies for the music department. The theme of the operetta was a program of music and was divided in- to three divisions Part l represented three forms of entertainment which were in vogue about the same time. The first scene represented the mid- nineteenth - century type of sentimental popular ballad and popular group country dance. The interlude recalls the early music hall days. Part 2 is a glimpse of the early minstrel show, before ir's decline, and Part 3 a regular vaudville filled with popular songs and modern dances. Some of the numbers in the operetta were Beautiful Dreamer, Old Zip Coon, l'Ohl Dem Golden Slippers, In the Good Old Summer Time and many others, includirig currently popular songs. The operetta was a different type from those given in previous years, but prox ed to be a very successful musical extravaganza. - The operetta, Ring Up the Curtain, was given May the eighth